Oliver Jackson-Cohen Archives

The Raven (2012)

Rating: ★★

May 11, 2012Edgar Allan Poe vs a Serial Killer

This has the great idea of pitting Edgar Allan Poe against a serial killer imitating his stories but instead produces a desultory murder mystery that has done only the most cursory reading about Poe and is ill-informed about the historical period

Director: James McTeigue

Actors: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, …

Category: Horror

11 May 201224 February 2025 by Roog

The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 22, 2018Haunted House

The original The Haunting is the finest ghost story ever made. One was sceptical that this remake as a tv mini-series of ten 50 minute episodes would come anywhere near that. Happily, Mike Flanagan proved me wrong.

Director: Mike Flanagan

Actors: Michiel Huisman, Elizabeth Reaser, Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas, …

Category: Horror

22 December 20183 November 2025 by Roog

The Invisible Man (2020)

Rating: ★★

Mar 28, 2020Invisible Stalker

Blumhouse deliver an invisible man, although one that has nothing to do with H.G. Wells or the previous invisible man films. Indeed, this feels like an invisible man film that doesn't even want to be about an invisible man at all.

Director: Leigh Whannell

Actors: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer, Storm Reid, …

Category: Science Fiction

28 March 202012 February 2025 by Roog

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Rating: ★★★★

Oct 24, 2020Haunted House

Mike Flanagan follows up the hit of The Haunting of Hill House with a mini-series that adapts another classic work The Turn of the Screw out into a similar kind of cross-generational ghost story. The results are extraordinary

Director: Axelle Carolyn, Ben Howling, Ciaran Foy, E.L. Katz, Liam Gavin, Mike Flanagan, Yolanda Ramke

Actors: Victoria Pedretti, Henry Thomas, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ameilie Bea Smith, …

Category: Horror

24 October 202018 May 2026 by Roog